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Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman Foundation at a glance

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Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$444k
Granted FY2020
50
Grants FY2020
11
States reached
$427k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k49 grants · $17k
  • $250k+1 grant · $427k
$200
Median grant
11
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ELLEN BOGOLUB AND NEIL FRIEDMAN FUND (DAF) (FK47) CO NORTHERN TRUST$426,814
THE NY METROPOLITAN OPERA$2,750
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC$2,500
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY$2,050
DOROT FOUNDATION$720
BROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$500
LONG ISLAND CARES$450
CJE SENIOR LIFE$360
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$360
NEW ISRAEL FUND$360
MAZON - A JEWISH RESPONSE TO HUNGER$360
ISLIP ARTS COUNCIL$350
WRITERS' THEATRE$300
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE$300
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$300
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $810) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 44% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%LONG ISLAND CARES: $450 → 7%CJE SENIOR LIFE: $360 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
IA
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CA
CO
VA
DC
AL
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Jewish Community Relations Council of New York

Jcrc-ny builds relationships to advance the values, interests and security of the new york jewish community and to create a more interconnected new york for all.

Civil Rights
2
American Jewish Committee

AJC's mission is to enhance the wellbeing of the Jewish people and Israel, and to advance human rights and democratic values in the United States and around the world. In pursuit of this mission, AJC advances democratic principles, fights…

Civil Rights
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Us Middle East Project Inc

The organization's mission is to engage in non partisan analysis of u.s. foreign policy in the middle east, with special emphasis on the middle east peace process, and to present policymakers in the united states, in the region and in the…

International
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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7
United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc

Uja-federation of new york (uja) cares for jews everywhere and new yorkers of all backgrounds, responds to crises close to home and far away, and shapes the jewish future. through strategic grantmaking, uja provides funding and resources…

Philanthropy
8
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
9
Committee to Protect Journalists Inc

The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…

Civil Rights
10
Jewish National Fund (Keren Kayemeth Leisrael) Inc

Jewish national fund gives all generations of jews a unique voice in building a prosperous future for the land of israel and its people.

International
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Jewish United Fund of Metropolitan Chicago

Juf provides critical resources that bring food, refuge, health care, education and emergency assistance to over 500,000 chicagoans of all faiths and millions of jews in israel and around the world, funding a network of 100+ agencies,…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Long Island Greenbelt Trail Conference Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

32 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 32 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
27/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ELLEN BOGOLUB AND NEIL FRIEDMAN FUND (DAF) (FK47) CO NORTHERN TRUST: $426,814 · OtherELLEN BOGOLUB AND NEIL FRIEDMAN FUND (DAF) (FK47) CO NORTHERN TRUST+28 more: $9,579 · OtherTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureISLIP ARTS COUNCIL INC: $350 · Arts & CultureWriters Theatre Inc: $300 · Arts & CultureNEW ISRAEL FUND: $360 · InternationalAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $360 · InternationalT'RUAH: $200 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $72 · InternationalBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 · EducationThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $300 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $140 · EducationLong Island Cares Inc: $450 · Human ServicesCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $360 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $300 · HealthNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $200 · HealthNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $136 · HealthJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 · HealthTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $300 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150 · EnvironmentLong Island Greenbelt Trail Conference Inc: $75 · Environment
Other$436,393Arts & Culture$3,150International$1,092Education$940Human Services$910Health$736Environment$525

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLong Island Cares Inc: $450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $360 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLIP ARTS COUNCIL INC: $350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWriters Theatre Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Council on Urban Affairs: $254 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL OVARIAN CANCER COALITION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetT'RUAH: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER NEW YORK COUNCILS BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL JEWISH HEALTH: $136 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF ST JOHNLAND: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJBI INTERNATIONAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $72 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLake Street Council: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ellen Beth Bogolub and Neil Friedman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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